The relationship between diabetes, diabetes-related complications and productive activities among older Europeans.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To assess the impact of diabetes and diabetes-related complications on two measures of productivity for people in the labour force and out of it, namely "being afraid health limits ability to work before retirement" and "volunteering".

Methods and data

Logistic regressions were run to test the impact of diabetes and its complications on the probability of being afraid health limits work and being a formal volunteer. The longitudinal sample for the former outcome includes 53,631 observations, clustered in 34,393 individuals, aged 50-65 years old whereas the latter consists of 45,384 observations, grouped in 29,104 individuals aged 65 and above across twelve European countries taken from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, from 2006 to 2013.

Results<

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez-Sanchez B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5948290 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature